New Year's Eve Party - 80's Style. We're closing up 2013 with a New Year's Eve party and you're invited. Our NY resolution is to start 2014 with a bang, so we're throwing a FREE shindig complete with a midnight champagne toast, balloon drop, photo booth and more. Come one, come all.

We are keeping this a completely public event. So no pre-sale of tickets or registering for a spot. We are just going to let people come in and enjoy themselves. We are keeping it pretty fun and casual, so please feel free to dress up!

Hey there SPSMers! Quick Event Announcement: Join us on Thursday, December 19th and take your photo with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the San Pedro Square Market from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Bring a Toy for Toys for Tots and we'll get them delivered to the people who need them!

San Pedro Square Market Special Events: Join History San Jose for a special event at the Peralta Adobe historic site at the San Pedro Square Market on Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 11:00am

Meet members of Founding Families, and take tours of the Peralta Adobe and Fallon House.San Jose or El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadelupe, the first Pueblo of California, was founded November 29, 1777. Come have a slice of birthday cake and help celebrate!Learn about life in early San Jose through hands-on activities and story telling. Enjoy live music, dancing and children’s hands-on activities! Food is available throughout the San Pedro Market.Location: Peralta Adobe-Fallon House Historic Site General Admission is freeActivity Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5

Tours are on a first-come, first-serve basis. History San Jose Member are free. $8 per adult, $5 for seniors and students with a valid ID. Children five and under are free. Please purchase tickets in front of the Peralta Adobe.

SPSM wishes to give a special thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the inaugural Oktoberfest Celebration at the Market! We couldn't have done it without the support of all of our partners, vendors, and volunteers!

Big Thanks To:

The Wiener Dog Race & Costume Contest Families

Donors: Andy's Pet Shop, since 1950 (who by the way are a 100% rescue pet shop-even the fish are rescue pets) in Downtown San Jose

and our amazing Culinary Partners who participated in creating their best version of Artisan German Dishes (many who sold out!) They also donated all the game prizes!

And... "Most of All" to all the local young Women & Men from San Jose State and the Intern Program that enthusiastically volunteered to make the first time festival event happen successfully for SPSM. Here's to next year!

Archaeology Day at the Peralta Adobe at San Pedro Square Market will offer children an opportunity to be junior archaeologists.

Stanford Archaeology Center students will be at the Peralta Adobe historic site conducting a mock excavation, screening, artifact identification and artifact reconstruction.

“This program gives Stanford students a chance to share our research,” said Barbara Voss, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. “The hidden history of San Jose’s early Chinatowns is not well known, and it’s exciting to give our youngest residents a chance to learn about archaeology and about the legacy of San Jose’s 19th century Chinese pioneers.”

This free family educational program will allow individuals to collect stickers for each activity to place in Archaeology Passports and become ‘certified’ as a Junior Archaeologist.

The oldest home in San Jose, the Peralta Adobe, serves as a perfect archaeological location. It is the centerpiece for San Pedro Square Market at 175 West Saint John Street in downtown San Jose. It is just across the street from the Fallon House, a mid-19th century Victorian home.

The public archaeology activities are free. While at the Peralta Adobe, visitors can also take tours of the Peralta Adobe and the Fallon House, which are $8 for adults, $5 for seniors (62 and older) and students with a valid school identification card; and $5 for children who are accompanied by an adult.

Tours for adults and children ages nine and older, will be held through the Peralta Adobe and the Fallon House, at 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. These historic buildings are not wheel-chair accessible. As usual, members of History San José receive free admission.

For more information or to make reservations for a tour, call 408.918.1047.

The Fallon House was built in 1855 by one of San Jose’s earliest mayors. The Victorian mansion showcases 15 fully-furnished rooms typical of the Victorian period. Thomas Fallon was a frontiersman in the John C. Fremont expedition, and Carmel Fallon was the daughter of one of the most prominent Mexican landowners in California.

The Peralta Adobe is San Jose’s oldest address. Built in 1797, the Peralta Adobe is the last remaining structure from El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. See the Adobe’s horno, an outside working oven, or venture inside the home and see two rooms furnished as they might have been when they were occupied by the Gonzales and Peralta families. It is now surrounded by the new San Pedro Square Market.